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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Alan Gerber" wrote in message
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I mean tell the tower I'm coming and have me keep my squawk code when I
contact the tower. Does this have another name? Is this not normally
done at class D airports?


What's the advantage in having the radar controller call the tower with that
information?

Perhaps you should use your connections and ask that very same
question to San Carlos Tower (KSQL), as they have pilots coming in
exactly like this, and they *ARE* a Class D airport.

In fact, it isn't only the TRACON that is doing this, KSFO
Tower does this as well. Constantly and Consistently, the following
is given to pilots:

"N123CM, leaving Class Bravo airspace to the south, radar services
terminated, maintain your present beacon code, contact San Carlos
Tower, 119.0."

Want proof of it, hit up the KSFO Tower feed at LiveATC. Now, I
haven't visited KSQL so I don't know if they have BRITE, but from my
tour of NCT, controllers there told us that it is done so the tower
knows who is who as they drop below the Class B floor. For some they do
call the tower to let them know who is coming in (pending how the
traffic load is), some they don't. But it is a standard practice
happening at one of the busiest centralized TRACONs in the airspace.

BL.
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